Has anyone here tried Home Chef (or any other home meal delivery service)?

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5. We used Home Chef during the height of the COVID pandemic when there were shortages of proteins...

... in the grocery store. Off and on, we used it for about a year. The cost wasn't crazy - about $20/meal for two, a little more if you wanted "premium" ingredients like scallops, better steaks - and there was no waste/leftover food, which was a plus. We did find that the quality of the product diminished substantially by the time we quit the service and that the options got repetitive. While it started out as a delivery of ingredients that you would then prep yourself (chopping, slicing, breading, etc) it shifted over time to things that were already prepped and you just did a super-quick assembly and popped it in the oven or saute pan. Since we both like the process of prepping meals, that was less satisfying, and again, the quality of ingredients suffered when everything was pre-chopped.

I think it's fine for people who aren't enamored of cooking and keep a fairly regular rotation of meals. I wouldn't go back to it again, though, unless I had challenges getting to a grocery store.